Feed store is closing

Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times

Zeke Munoz loads a bag of bird seed for a customer at the Kruse store in South El Monte. Because the market for its merchandise is dwindling, the store will close as the year ends, and Munoz plans to retire.

Zeke Munoz loads a bag of bird seed for a customer at the Kruse store in South El Monte. Because the market for its merchandise is dwindling, the store will close as the year ends, and Munoz plans to retire. (Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times)

Zeke Munoz loads a bag of bird seed for a customer at the Kruse store in South El Monte. Because the market for its merchandise is dwindling, the store will close as the year ends, and Munoz plans to retire.